linux-kernel - Re: Oops report for the week preceding June 16th, 2008

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Message-ID: <b6c5339f0806171018l2cafb1d6ie71da3dfdd09dac6@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:18:44 -0400
From:	"Bob Copeland" <me@...copeland.com>
To:	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: Oops report for the week preceding June 16th, 2008

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> Only seen with tainted kernels
> ------------------------------
> Rank 1: ath_dynamic_sysctl_register (warning)
>        Reported 376 times (3007 total reports)
>        [external] Bug in the proprietary madwifi driver
>        warning only shows up in tainted kernels
>        This warning was last seen in version 2.6.25.6, and first seen in
> 2.6.24.
>        More info:
> http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=ath_dynamic_sysctl_register

I just looked at my moldy old copy of madwifi - AFAICT this is in the non-HAL
section.  We can probably fix this one by filling out newer fields in the
ctl_table, just to get it off the #1 list.

Even though they should be using ath5k anyway...

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Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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